The President of China, Hu Jintao, visited the US this past week. Rush Limbaugh, one of talk radio's well known characters, mocked the Chinese language, complaining that it wasn't being simultaneously translated. Here is the video:
Category: language study
African Languages Initiative
Students are always seeking funding for language study. The beauty of the African Languages Initiative pilot program, designed to increase the number of Boren Scholars, Fellows and alumni engaged in the study of critical languages of Africa, is that it requires domestic US study of the language prior to departure to the host country. (This can be bypassed if the student has reached "novice high" -ILR 0+.)
Reflections on Multicultural Lives and “The Travel Bug”
Where does the Travel Bug come from?
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